Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002
2 volumes ; 21-28 cm
Typeset (unpublished?) biography of Gegen Dorje Tharchin, a Christian convert and founding editor of the Tibet Mirror newspaper (Kalimpong, India), emphasizing his religious activity. The first half of the biography covers his relations with Sadhu Sunder [sic] Singh, opening of a school in Gyantse, Tibet, and founding of the Tibet Mirror printing press in the 1920s, and refers to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and to Rev. Dr. John Anderson Graham. The second half continues to follow his religious and publishing activity, and details his audiences with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, etc
[volume 1]. Chapters 1-16 -- [volume 2]. Chapters 17-27
Title from handwritten cover, on traditional paper and applied to [volume 1] only
Author unknown
Pages 1-2 of [volume 1] are reproductions
[Volume 1] is typeset but unpublished with 176 numbered pages, handbound with cotton string
[Volume 2] is a typed transcription on by Herbert Louis Fader
Forms part of the Tharchin Collection
Digitized with funding by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO
Other volumes
Volume 2